Dittersbach on the property

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Dittersbach on the property
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 0 ″  N , 14 ° 52 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 269  (250-290)  m
Area : 9.42 km²
Residents : 504  (Dec. 31, 2015)
Population density : 54 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1994
Postal code : 02748
Area code : 035823

Dittersbach auf dem Eigen (officially Dittersbach ad Eigen , short Dittersbach a. D. E. ) in the Saxon district of Görlitz has been a district of Bernstadt auf dem Eigen since 1994 . The name affix refers to the historical region of the Eigenschen Kreis .

geography

Dittersbach auf dem Eigen on a measuring table from 1884

Dittersbach is located southeast of Bernstadt on the Eigen . In the form of a three-kilometer forest hoof village, it stretches along the Gaulebach valley (a tributary of the Pließnitz ) between Burkersdorf in the south and Kiesdorf auf dem Eigen in the northeast. The settlement area is at an altitude of 250 to 290  m above sea level. NN , the highest point within the 9.42 hectare corridor is the 381 meter high Knorrberg . Dittersbach is limited to the west by the Kleiner Nonnenwald , which formerly belonged to the St. Marienstern monastery near Kamenz, and to the east by the monastery forest , which was owned by the nearby St. Marienthal monastery near Ostritz.

Surrounding villages are Altbernsdorf on the Eigen in the north, Kiesdorf on the Eigen in the northeast, Ostritz beyond the monastery forest in the east, Schlegel in the southeast, Burkersdorf in the south, Neundorf on the Eigen on the other side of the Kleiner Nonnenwaldes in the west and Bernstadt on the Eigen in the northwest.

history

View of Dittersbach on the Eigen, artist's impression

The form of settlement as a forest hoof village with such a division of land suggests that the town was founded in the 13th century in the second phase of the German eastern settlement . It can be assumed that a locator named Dietrich led the Frankish settlers.

Documented in appearance occurred Diterisbach when the schönburgische knight Bartholomew of Lybinowe in 1261 the low village for 136 marks in the 1248 by the lords of Kamenz founded monastery Marienstern sold. The upper village was sold to the monastery by the Kamenzers for 700 silver marks in 1285. The Latin form of the name has already been handed down on the Eigen from that year , thirty years later Dittrichsbach vfm Eygen is mentioned in a document. Two watermills were built in the village by 1382 at the latest .

The village was not spared during the Hussite Wars , the church is said to have been destroyed in 1429. The inscription on a bell from 1469 suggests that the church will be rebuilt soon. The church tower still preserved today dates from 1594.

Through the Peace of Prague , Dittersbach came to the Electorate of Saxony from the Kingdom of Bohemia in 1635 during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648) with the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia .

From the 17th century Häusler settled in Dittersbach , who operated the house weaving . The population rose from 38 possessed men in 1600 to 1777 to 25 possessed men, 20 gardeners and 112 cottagers; in 1845 151 looms were in operation. Two windmills were built in 1800 and 1819, and there were blacksmiths, shoemakers, bakers and butchers since the 18th century. Later a cooperage and a brickworks were built .

In place of the old church, a larger church was built in 1871. A new organ (II / 23 / P) by Julius Jahn (Dresden) was built in 1876. The church school from 1834 was given a new building in 1911, which was enlarged in 1925.

In the First World War fell 22 jetřichovické, in World War II, there were 52. In the cemetery are buried 19 German and Hungarian two soldiers who fell in World War II in the area Dittersbachs.

After the war, a farm was expropriated as part of the land reform in 1946 and two new farmers were relocated; ten hectares of land were divided between 20 residents, including four small farmers. Until the socialist collectivization of the peasants in 1960, several peasant cooperatives from the pre-war period existed, so that an agricultural production cooperative (LPG) of type III was not founded until 1958 . The LPG (P) Schönau and LPG (T) “Vorwärts” (Dittersbach and Kiesdorf) emerged from the restructuring of the cooperatives in the 1970s .

As part of the administrative reform in the GDR on July 25, 1952 , the five eastern cities of the self's circle (were Altbernsdorf , Berzdorf , Dittersbach, Kiesdorf and Schonau ) of the dissolved district Löbau for county Görlitz country beaten, while the rest of the new district Löbau remained . When the first district reform in Saxony came about on August 1, 1994 after the political change , the Eigen district was fully incorporated into the Löbau-Zittau district. As early as January 1, 1994, Dittersbach moved from the district of Görlitz-Land to the district of Löbau through incorporation in Bernstadt , and three months later Altbernsdorf was also incorporated in Bernstadt in the same way.

Since the second district reform in Saxony on August 1, 2008, Dittersbach is on the Eigen in the newly founded district of Görlitz . The Waldhufendorf celebrated a festival week around Pentecost 2011 on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the first documentary mention.

Population development

year Residents
1834 984
1871 957
1890 833
1910 801
1925 870
1939 761
1946 1,058
1950 1,029
1964 866
1971 797
1981 732
1990 673
1993 639
2010 534

The interest register of the Marienstern monastery from the years 1374/1382 lists 36 Hufner for Dittersbach as well as the interest-free parish dedication and a free hoof of the Kretscham . In 1600 there are also mentioned 38 possessed men . With the arrival of cottagers , the population grew sharply until the Saxon state recession in 1777, there were 25 possessed men, 20 gardeners and 112 cottagers.

The first population survey by number of inhabitants in Saxony counted 984 inhabitants in 1834. Their number fell to 801 by 1910, after which there was a brief increase to 870 in 1925, which was followed by a decrease to 761 inhabitants in May 1939.

After the Second World War, the population increased to 1,058 in 1946 due to refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas, but in 1964 it was only 866. In the following decades the decline continued, with the incorporation of Dittersbach only had 639 inhabitants and at the end of 2010 there were 534, which is close to halving since the end of the war.

The religious portion of the population is predominantly Evangelical Lutheran denomination. In 1925, of the 870 inhabitants, 815 were Protestant (93.7%), 44 were Catholic and 11 were of other faith.

Place name

Documented forms of the place name are Diterisbach (1261), Ditherichsbach (1283), Ditherichsbach (1285), Dittrichsbach vfm Eygen (1315), Ditherichspach (1374/1382), Diettirsbach (1430) and Dittersbach (1486).

Hans Walther sees the meaning of the name as "[t] he village of a Dietrich located in the bottom of the brook ". It was named after Dietrich von Kittlitz .

Personalities

  • Peter Noack (lat. Petrus Noachus ; 1652–1695) from Zschornau near Kamenz had been pastor in Dittersbach since 1689.
  • Julius Pfeiffer (1824–1910) from Dittersbach was a lawyer, manor owner and national liberal politician.

Attractions

In Dittersbach over 20 half- timbered houses , mostly from the early 19th century, have been preserved as cultural monuments. A tall pedunculate oak near the house at Dorfstrasse 10 is under nature protection.

The church in the center of the village has ornamental plaster blocks on the tower.

literature

  • Görlitz and its surroundings (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 , pp. 201-204.
  • Council of the community Dittersbach (ed.): Dittersbach on the property in old and new times . 1986.
  • Cornelius Gurlitt : Dittersbach (on the property). In:  Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Kingdom of Saxony. 34. Issue: Official Authority Löbau . CC Meinhold, Dresden 1910, p. 93.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Facts and Figures. City administration of Bernstadt ad Eigen, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 21, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The data on the history are essentially taken from Volume 54 of the values ​​of the German homeland , pp. 201–204.
  3. ↑ a b Saxony regional register: information for 14 0 29 070 community Dittersbach ad Eigen. State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , accessed on May 4, 2011 .
  4. ↑ a b c Dittersbach on the own in the digital historical place directory of Saxony
  5. ↑ Görlitz and its surroundings (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 , p. 226.
  6. ↑ a b Ernst Eichler , Hans Walther : Ortnamesbuch der Oberlausitz - Studies on the toponymy of the districts of Bautzen, Bischofswerda, Görlitz, Hoyerswerda, Kamenz, Löbau, Niesky, Senftenberg, Weißwasser and Zittau. I name book (=  German-Slavic research on naming and settlement history . Volume  28 ). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975, p. 52 .
  7. ↑ Görlitz and its surroundings (= values ​​of the German homeland . Volume 54). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1994, ISBN 3-7400-0932-2 , pp. 204, 245.

Web links

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